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137. Garlo - Vent de Guitares

thanks very much for the Crib tip, Ned, gotta order a copy of that.

(Jon L), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago) link

How wonderful, I didn't even know that page existed! Yes, very recommended, and thanks for linking that!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago) link

Revive, just because I can't believe this went this far without mentioning
-138. One Mile North~Minor Shadows
-139. Yume Bitsu~The Golden Vessyl of Sound

otto, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

-140. Coelacanth - The Glass Sponge
-141. Toshiya Tsunoda - extract from field recording archive #1
-142. Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
-143. Asmus Tietchens - Eisgang
-144. Richie Hawtin - Concept 1:96 CD (the one thing of his I really like)
-145. John Oswald - Aparanthesi (though it only really works well at extreme volumes)
-146. Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes
-147. Vangelis - L'apocalypse des animaux (just play side two twice)

(Jon L), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

>100. Roy Montgomery - Temple IV

love that record.

also I just noticed the garlo record is at cd baby, that really is an amazing record, a cross between the sinewave tapestry of Folke Rabe's 'Was?' and the structral dynamics of bellowing wind on the Alan Lamb stuff. this record just got missed in the states.

(Jon L), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

Some great ones that are not mentioned yet:

William Orbit: Pieces In a Modern Style
The Orb: Orblivion
Biosphere: Microgravity
Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre: Equinoxe
Bowie/Eno: Sides 2 of "Low" and "Heroes"

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

-154. Vokokesh - Smile! And Point At The Mountain?
-155. Voice of Eye - Vespers

(Jon L), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

whoops. corrected spelling:

-154. Vocokesh - Smile! And Point At The Mountain?

(Jon L), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 06:37 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
-156. David Behrman - Leapday Night
-157. Paul Schutze - Apart
-158. Annea Lockwood - World Rhythms (1997 mix on Sinopah)
-159. Annea Lockwood - Sound Map of the Hudson River

(Jon L), Sunday, 29 February 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago) link

mines:

keith fullerton whitman-playthroughs
rafael toral-violence/calm
mark lanegan-the winding sheet
philip jeck vinyl coda 4
gavin bryars-incipit vita nova
the sounds of the sounds of science by yo la tengo
gavin bryars-sinking of the titanic
loren mazzacan connors + darin gray-lost mariner
sebadoh-freed weed

russignon, Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago) link

i forgot "homesickness" by you fantastic!

russ, Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:57 (twenty years ago) link

Respect to Geir for mentioning "Microgravity" !!

Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

wow, good call on 'sinking of the titantic'

'playthroughs' was no. 4 so not counting, but that is a great record. I like his field recording piece 'Dartmouth St Underpass' even more, less relaxing more ominous.

-168. Antimatter - Transfixion
-169. Zbnigniew Karkowski / Antimatter - Function Generator
-170. Anton Batagov - Music for the 35 Buddhas
-171. Kougezan KOUKIJI - The LIVE 11th [Final]

(Jon L), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

oops, sorry russ, overlooked one, renumbering now

-172. You Fantastic - Homesickness

(Jon L), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

-173. ennio morricone 'the good, the bad and the ugly'
-174. charalambides 'live hand held'
-175. knifestorm 'funeral music'
-176. nurse with wound 'spiral insana'

Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
177. Decay Music - Michael Nyman just got it and i like it

hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

178. Leif Inge - 9 Beet Stretch

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago) link

fennesz - venice... sounds esp. gorgeous right about now

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago) link

180. Brian Eno - Thursday Fucking Afternoon

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago) link

eek, I just realized I stepped on nom de plume's # -12 with the Riley's Persian Surgery Dervishes, so renumber -146

-146. Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:46 (twenty years ago) link

-181. Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
-182. Differnet - Come on and Bring Back the Brjokén Sounds of Yore
-182. Füxa - Very Well Organized

Kaiser of Köln, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

183. Biosphere - Patashnik
184. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Free D
185. Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina
186. Ulrich Schnuass - Faraway Trains Passing By
187. Ulrich Schnuass - A Strangely Isolated Place
188. Savath & Savalas - Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey
189. Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrengeit Fair Enough
190. The Auteurs vs. mu-ziq - Untitled
191. Alice Coltrane - Eternity
192. Alice Coltrane - Transcendence
193. Pan American = 360 Business / 360 Bypass

Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

194. Tom Verlaine -- Warm and Cool
195. Terje Rypdal -- Odyssey
196. Aarktica -- Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life and Be Happy Anyway

christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

(I love that Aarktica album, I was just listening to it again yesterday.)

Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

Tim Hecker - "Radio Armor".

Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
[numbers don't seem to matter anymore, right?] the discography of david toop. including compilations and collaborations.

myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Monday, 12 April 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...
myke's free to repost with actual album titles if he likes but I'm not going to do the counting for him.

-198. Rings of Uranus - Nasa-Voyager Space Sounds - Brain/Mind Research
- 199. Akira Rabelais - ...bènèdiction. draw.
- 200. Karen Stackpole - selt-titled on Dielectric Records
- 201. La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
- 202. Carl Stone / Nagaya Kazuya - Resonator
- 203. Ellen Fullman - Staggered Stasis (definitely the disc to start with for her work)
- 204. David Tudor - Rainforest IV (Edition Block 1980 -- different recording)

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

- 205. Environments 1 - Psychologically Ultimate Seashore
- 206. Environments 2 - Tintinnabulation

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

207 Keith Rowe - A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality
208 Oren Ambarchi - Suspension

sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

- 209. Tom Dissevelt - Fantasy in Space (Checkpoints)

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow I thought I was the only one that bought those Environment albums.

hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

you are not alone

though still relatively few in number

-210. Environments 3 - Dawn & Dusk at New Hope, Pa

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

my favorite Eno is getting no love up in this bitch - "Music For Airports"

joseph pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

-211. Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit.
This is a band that gets surprisingly little love (though they got worse, album by album)

M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Aren't we forgetting;

-212...Nick Drake-Pink Moon
-213...Nick Drake-Bryter Later
-214...Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
-215...Damien Rice-O
-216...Joni Mitchell-Blue

Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

... we're trying to

Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom Dissevelt - Fantasy in Space (Checkpoints)

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

What's that supposed to mean!!!
You're not a fan then?
What music are you into Derridadaismus?

Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

Completely insane.

the electrosoniks 'electronic music'

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

-217. lull: time box
-218. rapoon + birds of tin: monomyth
-219. jeck / kirkegaard: soaked
-220. organum: vacant lights
-221. cisfinitum: vs
-222. matthias grassow: himalaya

:|, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

The Album Leaf - In a safe place

hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
-223. monoton - monotonprodukt

:|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 07:56 (nineteen years ago) link

erm -224 of course. sorry.

:|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Vent de Guitares / Garlo : The geo acoustic ambient album
Zuni Pueblo Halona Idi Wana / Fernando Cellicion & garlo : Ambient + native american flute.

gilbert tarmac, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

the garlo album is #-137 -- and it is astounding. still for sale at cdbaby and mimaroglu music sales.

will have to check out the one with Cellicion.

(Jon L), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
the one with Cellicion is much more about the flute than the drone. is nice but not sure it competes with Vent De Guitares

-226. Joe Jones - Solar Music -- (wow)
-227. Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (the only record of his I truly love)
-228. Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging
-229. Buloshkin / Gubaidulina / Artemiev / Demisov / Schnittke / Nemtin / Kallosh / Kreitchi - Electroacoustic Music Volume IV: Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971

side 2 of Bayle's Erosphere, 'Toupie dans le ciel', masterpiece, reissued as an ep

(Jon L), Friday, 14 January 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
-230. Tod Dockstader - Aerial

milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
-231. Roger Winfield - Windsongs
-232. Roger Winfield - Voices of the Wind

(Windsongs came first, it uses recordings of Aeolian Harps and then layers & mixes them into eight short compositions -- Voices of the Wind is one long 60 minute nonstop piece more directly based on nothing but the basic drone of the Harps -- I like them both but play the latter more often)

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

233. Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

-234. Marconi Union - Distance
-235. Goldmund - Corduroy Road

Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link


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